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Based on the author's artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, The Nomadic Listener is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of contemporary cities, including... more
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      Sonic ArtMigrationPsychogeographyStorytelling
In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which... more
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      MusicPopular MusicComedyLiterature
ALLA DERIVA DEL FOGLIO Sul fraseggio dello zeroglifico spatoliano per vedere e sentire di più di Giovanni Fontana Sono ormai passati quasi trent'anni dalla scomparsa di Adriano Spatola. L'anniversario cadrà il 23 novembre 2018, ma... more
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      Orality-Literacy StudiesPerformanceContemporary PoetryPoesia
For the anniversary of the My Lai massacre, an audio poem about racism, military hierarchies, unquestioning obedience to authority and presidential complicity.
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      Group DynamicsRacismVietnam WarContemporary Poetry
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      Contemporary ArtHenri ChopinConcrete PoetryVisual Poetry
This is the catalogue for Jack Ox's exhibition of her 800 Square foot visualization of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. The exhibition occurred in conjunction with the first large Schwitters exhibition in... more
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      Visual MusicIntermediaSound PoetryKurt Schwitters
In a number of his academic articles in the field of Words and Music, Eric Prieto makes a point of drawing attention to the idea that ‘the application of concepts from one art to objects from the other is an inherently metaphorical act.’... more
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      Modern PoetryContemporary PoetryVowel harmonyQuintilian
Bilingual catalog (Portuguese/English) of the exhibition History of Brazilian Visual Poetry, curated by Yuri Bruscky, Paulo Bruscky and Adolfo Montejo Navas, held at Sesc Bom Retiro (São Paulo/SP), in 2019.
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      Experimental LiteratureExperimental PoetryConcrete PoetryLatin American Poetry
Gloomy Sunday, On a Tuesday (10 min.) is a sound collage of repeated, recycled and cyclical recorded voices singing and saying different versions of “Gloomy Sunday,” (a.k.a.) “The Hungarian Suicide Song” (1933) by Rezso Seress, in every... more
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      Soundscape StudiesSuicideMemory StudiesSound Art
An attempt to identify the evolutionary stages of any phenomenon in art is a thankless undertaking, and not only due to obvious "blank spots," but also because of the impossibility of determining with any precision which events may be... more
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      Russian LiteratureElectronic MusicSound ArtElectronica
This book focuses on the experimental practice of Katalin Ladik, a poet, performer and actress born in the former Yugoslavia. Her career as a poet writing in Hungarian language began in the intellectual circles of the neoavantgarde... more
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      Performance ArtExperimental MusicConceptual ArtCentral and Eastern Europe
Notes taken between 2014-2018 Typed up and edited by Ernest Schonfield. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2022 ISBN 9780852619810 = open access PDF. I would like to thank the Tom Leonard Literary Estate for permission to publish this... more
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      Scottish LiteratureModern Scottish PoetrySound PoetryModern and Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
While most critics have focused on the semantic, aural and textual effects of Dada sound poetry few have given more than cursory treatment to the fact that these works also exist as carefully-typeset texts and as highly-scripted... more
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      German LiteraturePoetryHugo BallPoetry and Poetics
An examination of concepts of sound in futurist theatrical theory reveals that it was the perception and adoption of sound as matter in futurist poetry, arts and performance that gave birth to an authentic dramaturgy. In their initial... more
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      Theatre StudiesAvant-Garde TheaterSoundFuturism
Percorsi della vocalità nella poesia d'azione Collana "Archivio della poesia del '900" diretta da Alberto Cappi e Eugenio Miccini Editoriale Sometti, Mantova, 2004 - ISBN 88-7495-023-3 Giovanni Fontana POESIA DELLA VOCE E DEL GESTO... more
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      Orality-Literacy StudiesIntermediaPerformanceModern Poetry
The paper examines two poetical practices – the transrational language (zaum) of the Russian futurist Aleksei Kruchenykh, and the notion of glossolalia in the work of the Russian symbolist Andrey Bely and the French dramatist Antonin... more
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      PerformativityAntonin ArtaudSoundRussian avant-garde art
A Poesia Sonora veio a estabelecer, ao longo da sua história, uma profunda relação com os meios tecnológicos. Mais, ela atravessa todo o século XX, em diálogo permanente com outros campos artísticos, e constitui-se, por esse motivo, como... more
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      Experimental LiteratureSound Poetry
Nel "Manifesto tecnico della letteratura futurista" [1912] Marinetti scrive: "Nulla è più interessante, per un poeta futurista, che l'agitarsi della tastiera di un pianoforte meccanico. Il cinematografo ci offre la danza di un oggetto che... more
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      IntermediaContemporary PoetryLanguage PoetryConcrete Poetry
Quando nel 1971 Giulia Niccolai e Adriano Spatola decidono di fondare la rivista «Tam Tam» hanno la chiara intenzione di dare un forte impulso all'intermedialità. Nei primi mesi del 1972 viene pubblicato il primo numero, stampato a... more
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      Orality-Literacy StudiesReggio EmiliaContemporary PoetryVoice
Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in 1887. He studied at the Applied Arts School, the Art Academy and the Institute of Technology. Refused by the Berlin Dadaists, he started a one-man Dada group in Hannover called Merz. He made... more
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      Sound PoetryKurt SchwittersUrsonate
Catálogo da exposição "Palarva - Poesia Visual e Sonora de Paulo Bruscky", realizada na Caixa Cultural Brasília, em 2018, com curadoria de Yuri Bruscky.
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      Conceptual ArtMail ArtContemporary Latin American ArtSound Art
ACTION POETRY Il corpo in azione nello spazio della ricerca poetica performativa 1. Parole sui muri e corpi d'artista Grazie all'iniziativa di un artista, Claudio Parmiggiani, e alla complicità di un Sindaco amante del nuovo, Mario... more
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      Performing ArtsPerformance StudiesOrality-Literacy StudiesPerformance Art
This dissertation reflects on the prototyping process carried out for creating and developing the PoéticaSonora’s digital audio repository, focused on storing, editorializing and disseminating works of sound art and poetry readings... more
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      Digital HumanitiesPoetryMetadataSound studies
in "Deux poètes face au monde-Pierre et Ilse Garnier", a cura di CHRISTINE DUPOUY, Presses Universitaires François Rabelais, Tours, 2018 [ISBN:978-2-86906-687-8] GIOVANNI FONTANA LA POESIE SONORE DE PIERRE GARNIER : POESIE PHONIQUE,... more
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      20th century Avant-GardeConcrete PoetryVoiceNeo-Avant-Garde
IN FLUENTI TRASLATI L'opera poetica di Arrigo Lora Totino 1. LE PRIME PRATICHE ARTISTICHE La Fondazione Berardelli custodisce un'ampia raccolta di opere di Arrigo Lora Totino, acquisite da Paolo e Pietro Berardelli a più riprese, in... more
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      Orality-Literacy StudiesPerformance ArtIntermediaPerformance
Steve McCaffery describes sound poetry as a “new way to blow out candles” and “what sound poets do.” In his brief survey of sound poetry, McCaffery describes the genealogy of sound poetry from its earliest formalized birth during Russian... more
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      Sound and NoiseSound Poetry20th Century Avantgarde
Vincent Broqua, Dirk Weissmann (dir.), Sound / Writing : traduire-écrire entre le son et le sens, Homophonic translation – traducson – Oberflächenübersetzung, Paris, éditions des archives contemporaines, 2019, 356 p., ISBN :... more
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      American LiteratureFrench LiteratureGerman LiteratureEnglish Literature
http://www.gylphi.co.uk/journals/InnovativePoetry/4/2 'The Tom Poems’ originates in the chance discovery by Cobbing of a book of theoretical linguistics in a bookshop in Vienna, during a visit to the city in the company of Tom Leonard,... more
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      Sound PoetryFound poetryBob Cobbing
This book explores the international relevance of the concept of neo-avant-garde for the study of post-war literary innovations covering North American, Latin American, Caribbean, Austrian, French, British, Belgian, Dutch and German... more
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      Black Arts MovementAustrian LiteratureComic booksDutch literary studies modern poetry
This work deals with the network activities developed in Brazil by mail artists during the 1970s, culminating in two editions of the International Ra(u)dio Art Show (IRAS) in Recife, Pernambuco. These were organized between 1978 and 1979... more
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      Media StudiesMedia and Cultural StudiesSound studiesMedia Art
I attempt to locate the "stutter of form" as described in Craig Dworkin's essay of that title in the realm of contemporary classical music. Lachenmann's piece Pression serves as a starting point which leads me toward Sept Papillons, a... more
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      MusicMusicologyPoetryEmbodiment
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      Contemporary ArtPerformanceVisual PoetrySound Poetry
Recuperare e promulgare lo spirito dell'avanguardia futurista comporta una personale predisposizione a un approccio totalizzante che prescinda da sterili settorialismi per tentare nuove connessioni tra parola, colore, gesto e materia.... more
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      Performance ArtPerformance PoetryVisual PoetrySound Poetry
Con il ritorno all'oralità verificatosi nel corso del Novecento in parallelo al mutamento di assetto tecnologico, la voce e il gesto vengono riscoperti da artisti, poeti, musicisti ed esplorati in tutte le loro possibilità espressive,... more
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      FluxusJohn CageSound PoetryLettrism
Since the 1990s, ecocriticism has influenced the ways we study literature, but fractures remain. While there has been some preliminary ecocritical work on what can be called experimental ecopoetry and ecopoetics, so far the most radical... more
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      Avant-Garde CinemaAvant-garde writingAvant-Garde TheaterDigital Poetics
CALL FOR PAPERS [French and German Version: see PDF] Sound / Writing: On Homophonic Translation International Conference, Paris, November 17-19, 2016 Organizers: Vincent Broqua (University of Paris at Saint-Denis) and Dirk Weissmann... more
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      American LiteratureGerman StudiesComparative LiteratureFrench Literature
W XIX w. związki literatury i filozofii zdeterminowały ontologiczny status tej pierwszej. Nie byłoby literatury romantycznej w znanym powszechnie kształcie, zwłaszcza polskiej, gdyby nie przemożny wpływ idealistycznej filozofii... more
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      Comparative LiteratureRomanticismLiterature and MusicPoetry
in Formes Poétiques Contemporaines, n°8, op. cit., p. 115-119.
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      OulipoConstrained WritingSound PoetryPoésie Sonore & Poésie Action
Sound poetry, which emerged in the fifties from the encounter between the phonetic experiments, carried out by the first avant-garde artistes, with the new magnetic tape recording technology, has its specific seed of creation and... more
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A review of Leonie Krutzinna’s 'Der norwegische Schwitters' (originally a PhD dissertation), a study that focuses mainly on Schwitters’ largely neglected writings in Norway between 1937 and 1940, the year in which he fled to England.
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      Translation StudiesPerformance StudiesIntermedialityNorwegian Literature
Un ampio e significativo settore della poesia del secondo Novecento ha orientato i propri interessi verso la complessità dei rapporti tra la scrittura e le arti, secondo quella prospettiva che negli anni Sessanta è stata individuata come... more
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      Performing ArtsPerformance StudiesPerformance ArtIntermedia
In this collective article, we argue for a wider recognition of Lily Greenham’s sound poetry, underscoring her artistic uses of multilingualism and transnational collaboration. The form of the article is conceptual: in order to signal the... more
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      MultilingualismAvant-garde writingPerformanceAvant-Garde
Giuliano Zosi: La mitologia sonora dell’esperienza poetica, in “Malacoda”, 8 aprile 2016, Anno II, n° 11, 2016.
http://www.malacoda.eu/2016/04/08/giuliano-zosi-la-mitologia-sonora-dellesperienza-poetica-di-giovanni-fontana/
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      Performance ArtPerformanceOrality20th century Avant-Garde
Le progrès technologique et la révolution des médias ont donné de nouveaux espaces d'action. En même temps, il est très important d'élargir les matrices poétiques dans l'espace performatif (qui, dans les 40 dernières années, est devenu... more
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      Contemporary ArtIntermedialityPerformance ArtVideo Art
«Fine direi, tanto per cominciare. Quando la prima elementare accorciò le ore del sonno facendo scivolare un freddo fastidioso nella schiena attraverso il colletto bianco inamidato. La fine di un'infanzia corta. L'odore dei lumini coprì... more
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      Performing ArtsPerformance ArtPerformanceContemporary Poetry
La poesia "cerca oggi di farsi medium totale, di sfuggire a ogni limitazione, di inglobare teatro, fotografia, musica, pittura, arte tipografica, tecniche cinematografiche e ogni altro aspetto della cultura, in un'aspirazione utopistica... more
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      PoetryIntermediaVisual PoetryPoesia
IN: Dai margini a dentro, da dentro ai margini. Mappe dei cambiamenti letterari e culturali (a cura di Anna Szirmai, Endre Szkárosi, Norbert Matyus e Kata Szakál), CIVILTÀ ITALIANA Collana diretta da Peter Kuon – Terza serie, No. 23,... more
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      Italian artFluxusArtists' BooksVisual Poetry
El 27 de septiembre de 2007, los habitantes de Sevilla, España, tuvieron la oportunidad de contactar con la obra de tres artistas brasileños emigrantes que viven en Europa. Los espectáculos se situaban entre la danza, música, artes... more
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      Performing ArtsArtCreative processes in contemporary danceContemporary Art
Interview with Greta Monach about her work and career
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      LiteraturePoetryModern PoetryDutch Literature
Dit essay werd gepubliceerd in de catalogus ‘Visuele Poëzie’ in de Goretti Kapel, Tilburg, NL, november 2012 en behandeld enerzijds een theoretisch aspect en anderzijds een reflectie op het werk dat op de tentoonstelling werd getoond van... more
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      Contemporary ArtContemporary PoetryExperimental PoetryVisual arts and poetry